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Meaning of "devoiced" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVOICED

devoiced  [diːˈvɔɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVOICED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Devoiced is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEVOICED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless or voiced. The term, however, is used to refer to two separate concepts. Voicing can refer to the articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate. This is its primary use in phonetics to describe phones, which are particular speech sounds. It can also refer to a classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration but need not actually be voiced at the articulatory level. This is the term's primary use in phonology when describing phonemes, or in phonetics when describing phones. At the articulatory level, a voiced sound is one in which the vocal cords vibrate, and a voiceless sound is one in which they do not. For example, voicing accounts for the difference between the pair of sounds associated with the English letters "s" and "z". The two sounds are transcribed as and to distinguish them from the English letters, which have several possible pronunciations depending on context.

Definition of devoiced in the English dictionary

The definition of devoiced in the dictionary is having been made voiceless.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVOICED


foist
fɔɪst
hoist
hɔɪst
honest
ˈɒnɪst
interest
ˈɪntrɪst
joist
dʒɔɪst
latest
ˈleɪtɪst
list
lɪst
moist
mɔɪst
paste
peɪst
playlist
ˈpleɪˌlɪst
quoist
kwɔɪst
semimoist
ˌsemɪˈmɔɪst
specialist
ˈspɛʃəlɪst
taste
teɪst
tourist
ˈtʊərɪst
unrejoiced
ˌʌnrɪˈdʒɔɪst
unvoiced
ʌnˈvɔɪst
uphoist
ʌpˈhɔɪst
voiced
vɔɪst
waste
weɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVOICED

devo
devo max
devocalise
devocalize
devoice
devoicing
devoid
devoir
devoirs
devolution
devolutionary
devolutionist
devolve
devolvement
devon

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVOICED

diced
gravel-voiced
high-priced
iced
jaundiced
latticed
low-priced
medium-priced
modestly priced
overpriced
prejudiced
priced
spiced
surpliced
underpriced
unnoticed
unpracticed
unprejudiced
unpriced
unsliced

Synonyms and antonyms of devoiced in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «devoiced» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVOICED

Find out the translation of devoiced to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of devoiced from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «devoiced» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

清化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

devoiced
570 millions of speakers

English

devoiced
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

devoiced
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

devoiced
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

devoiced
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

surdas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

devoiced
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

devoiced
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dimasak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

devoiced
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無声
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

devoiced
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Devoiced
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

devoiced
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

devoiced
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Devoiced
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

devoiced
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

devocalizzato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ubezdźwięczniły
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

devoiced
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

devoice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

devoiced
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

devoiced
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

devoiced
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

devoiced
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of devoiced

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVOICED»

The term «devoiced» is used very little and occupies the 171.379 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVOICED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «devoiced» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «devoiced» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about devoiced

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVOICED»

Discover the use of devoiced in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to devoiced and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Principles of Phonetics
(For convenience of discussion, this might be described as fully devoiced; it will be identified by adding a centred subscript voiceless diacritic to the corresponding voiced symbol, as in [z].) Should [z] and voiceless [s] be regarded as fully ...
John Laver, 1994
2
Voicing in Japanese
from a devoiced vowel is represented phonologically in the first place. Their usual assumption is that a devoiced vowel loses its capacity to act as an accent- bearer and that the loss of the capacity is expressed phonologically by deleting the ...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Kensuke Nanjo, Tetsuo Nishihara, 2005
3
Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 6th ...
fricative is labelled devoiced; if rσ2(x) < 15, voiced. Fricatives manually classified as partially voiced were considered to be in the devoiced category when comparing the manual and automatic criteria. The laryngograph signal presents,  ...
Nuno J. Mamede, 2003
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Phonetics: A Coursebook
So, the /ɡ/ in 'gold', when the word is produced in isolation, is devoiced because of the silence that comes before it. The /d/ of 'gold', when the word is in isolation, is devoiced because of the silence that comes after it. These two directions of ...
Rachael-Anne Knight, 2012
5
Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Geminate Timing
Moving on now to a comparison of initial stop closure duration across present and perfect forms in both devoiced- and voiceless-initial stems, we see in Figure 3.26 that stops in devoiced-initial perfective forms (orthographic <bb> and <dd>),  ...
William Ham, 2013
6
Psycholinguistics
Preceding Following segment segment Devoiced Devoiced Devoiced Devoiced onset Devoiced onset Devoiced onset Extra duration Extra duration Extra duration Devoiced Extra duration Devoiced Extra duration Devoiced Extra duration ...
Michael Garman, 1990
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English Phonology: An Introduction
They are at least partially devoiced in all other contexts: next to voiceless phonemes as in (14c, g), as well as before or after silence - (14 a, e) and (14 b, f) respectively. A word of clarification is needed regarding 'silence' as a devoicing ...
Heinz J. Giegerich, 1992
8
The Languages of Native North America
Voiceless syllables occur in several contexts. In some languages, syllables are systematically devoiced phrase-finally, as in Oneida, a Northern Iroquoian language of Ontario and Wisconsin: lotoldthn 'he has gone hunting'. In Zuni, a language ...
Marianne Mithun, 2001
9
Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary
xxxviii Pronunciation 2.22.1 At the beginning of a word z is often devoiced or partially devoiced. 2.22.2 After voiceless consonants z is devoiced. 2.22.3 Before a voiceless consonant z is devoiced. Before a, z is lost altogether. 2.22.4 z' stands ...
Richard A. Rhodes, 1985
10
Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation
fieldwork suggests that many loanwords are realized on the surface with shortened and devoiced epenthetic vowels, although there are no quantitative analyses available which could allow us to give precise figures here. This phenomenon is ...
Christian Uffmann, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVOICED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term devoiced is used in the context of the following news items.
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Monthly etymology gleanings for April 2015
... the vowel understood by long e in Modern English), which underwent shortening before two consonants, while final d was devoiced after f. «OUPblog, Apr 15»
2
DOWNTON ABBEY RECAP FOR FEBRUARY 22, 2015
Sinderby says that he finds devoice a sign of weakness this is bad seeing as Roses parents are all but devoiced but are just trying to play nice ... «TVGrapevine.com, Feb 15»
3
The Classical Music Network
But despite her physical allure and undeniably strong stage presence, the result often led to devoiced lines that betrayed overcompensation. The opposite was ... «ConcertoNet, Jan 15»
4
COAS commands decimation of terrorists at large
RAWALPINDI: General Raheel Sharif, the commander of Pakistan's battle-hardened armed forces, Friday devoiced that none of the terrorists ... «SAMAA TV, Dec 14»
5
Child Support Bill Resubmitted
Section five of the draft bill notes: "If a Liberian man living and working abroad leaves a woman, gets separated, devoiced or otherwise and said ... «AllAfrica.com, Oct 14»
6
Nicole Kidman reportedly devastated that adopted children Isabella …
I attended the funeral of my cousin on Friday she was only 67 years old, she had two children with her first husband but they devoiced & stayed ... «Daily Mail, Sep 14»
7
The Origins of Yiddish, Part Dray
... the “standard” and “Regensburg” theories, a process took place whereby final voiced consonants like “b” and hard “g” were devoiced; hence, ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jul 14»
8
Educating the world outside Yorkshire about our articles of faith
... but is sometimes "softened" to a devoiced bilabial as a result of homorganic nasality. Only in Holderness, that oddly detached fragment of the ... «The Guardian, May 14»
9
The Immersion Disconnect Between Agency and Game Structure
This circumvents the usually rule where the story and the gameplay are devoiced, essentially telling the player that all of those kills they've ... «ModVive, Dec 13»
10
Alphabet soup, part 1: V and Z
The final spirant was not devoiced, and the English learned to pronounce v not only between vowels. Once that happened, French words like ... «OUPblog, Jul 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Devoiced [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/devoiced>. Apr 2024 ».
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